Hi all i am Darryl and doing up a home built motor home from a ex school bus and have never really known what fresh water hose to use can you give me a brand name as i have had plastic tasting water problem .Just today i went to bunnings hard ware and seen that they had food grade drinking water hose on special for $13.25 for a 10 metre roll its blue on the outside and white in the inside Brand is pope.So can anyone tell me if these are good and if not where and what brand fresh water hose do you own and how are you rolling up your hoses when not in use pictures or know how for easy access would be great cheers Darryl

Look for the food grade hose that has reinforcement in it, you will know it when you see it as it looks like its braided.Brand name evades me, it is a cow to roll up.Clarke rubber have it I think,or it may be in the plumbing section at Bunnings.Titch

Welcome Daryl ... the best drinking water hose and certainly not the cheapest is made in Australia by Flatout - www.flatoutaust.com - it is as the name suggests, a flat hose. It rolls up onto a reel supplied as a whole item and it rolls up quite readily. They make other kinds of hoses for the RV industry as well. Check it out, if you are going to do a lot of camping it will be well worth your while to have one.

Howdy Darryl,,,,The Blue ''FoodGrade'' you are looking at at Bunnings is what I re-hosed our small campervan with and have had no problems....I will be using that same hose under the big bus when I get to that stage,,,,

Just on that hose business...We run a cup full of WHITE KING through the tanks then flush them every few months....kills any bugs and makes the water stay fresh tasting.

(While we have you here....can I suggest you ''repost'' your condensation problem you are having in your bus here as a new topic...There may be some other Ideas / suggestions from down your end of the cooler part of the Country.....'Ice-man' Titch may have some good ideas)

Rosco, the water had a funny taste and I originally thought it was something else until I read about the Pope hoses from Bunnings on another forum.

I have a stainless steel tank on my CT and never had any issues with the other hose I was using....bought the bunnings hose to take with me to fill along the way when travelling. Never got that far, used it at home a couple of times and the water tasted terrible.

Drained & flushed the tank and went back to my original hose and all is good again.

Gypsy, I read those posts and apart from the person who wished it came in longer lenghts ..there was a person who said it tasted funny for a few days....that could have even been the water they put in the tank at that time....who knows ????I would be more concerned about the carsagenic (sp)...from using the black hose.We were always told never to store water in black containers as bugs breed better in that colour........Clear or blue.....were the colours recommended.